Haggis Ain’t Cake!

Yes Kitty… these puppies are here to stay.

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Juan: ok now let me play games

Juan: closinmg byee

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2008 Started and ended with me at home. I have had a lot of time to reflect overthe past five years here in my self imposed house arrest, I have come to a conclusion… I think this really sucks. Sure it may seem cool to be able to work from home (no longer working, they took that away from El Keeme in a STD/LTD situation) and do what ya wanna do. I think it is not a good thing to trade dollars for hours either, unless you need them but even then… make something and sell it! Why sell you time… I say we all make a living with our skills or the skills of others.

Where the heck was I?

OH! 2008 and the things that mattered to only me ME ME ME. Bullet points anyone?

• So, My Uncle almost died a few times… and he is still trying to escape on me. “Dear Juanito, if you read this QUIT TRYING TO DIE ALREADY”.
• I got all my bills on time! WOO HOO!
• GRAND BABIES!
• Added a room to the house (Thanks UB)
• NONE OF MY CARS RAN! WOO HOO!!! SCORE
• My brother stopped talking to me… not sure why. Well he talks to me about 3% now… as opposed to the 6% before.
• I saw a doctor one time.
• I have not been to the hospital in a year and a half (back then I saw doctors once a month at least)
• My daughter, husband and kiddies moved in WOO HOO (this is a real woo hoo)
• OS#2 put the car that was in both our names into her own!
• OS#3 Got a BMW (she needs to fix it “BABY!!! ALL IT NEEDS IS BLEEDING”)
• I sent out Christmas cards and I failed at that (sorry those of you who did not get one… I have the stack here in my room they were in the drawer and I did not grab them all like I thought! You may get two next year).
• I gave everyone in my family a brand new car (hot wheels)
• My primo Frank now talks to me about 60% of the time (up from previous years, maybe he is my brother in disguise.. dunno but its kinda cool).
• Keemecast radio launched and went into hiatus for retooling… going to play royalty free music… send me some tunes! Again a Frank dealie bopper (hey thanks for the laptop again cuz and you to Martha!)
• I still love Hallie Berry
• two of my nieces (Cristal and Yvette) had babies… BOYS!
• I sold some pens! Thanks Dave
• I ate Deer meat! Thank Sterling and clan (My neighbors are the best… I will miss them if either of us ever leave).
• My daughter had her identity stolen
• I learned how to use Adobe CS3 software (fireworks, Photo shop, Dream weaver and more).
• My second life got better than my first life for a while… now … well did I mention the babies.
• I made a family video from my mom’s 8mm films she had all these years… have not given to the family just yet. I am waiting for them to get excited about it first… if no excitement… no video.
• My friend and yours Howie is making inkwells and we sell them on that there eBay. That guy is … well OS#4
• My power went out 21 times last year (Nazi box)
• sold many of my cars from the garden of cars (a few needed to go.. a few I will miss).
• I broke down my back door just so I could go outside… then I never really went outside.
• STILL NO GRASS AT MY HOUSE! Desert and weeds (I need a tractor)
• My true friends are still reading my blog. Thank you.

I hope this year is as good to you as its already being to me… We are alive… we are fed… we sing songs and we read blogs. Something must be going ok.

Keeme

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One of my grandsons now has what is the first of many teeth. It was discovered at 12:01PM today while doing routine mission-centric gastro replenishment tasks and diagnostics (feedings and finding out why they are crying to you non space explorer type). The cool thing is they have teeth!!!! the not so cool… THEY FREAKING HAVE TEETH AND THE BITING WILL COMMENCE.

*Sigh*

Next up… GO-CARTS!

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I was doing my usual Saturday night routine; Wishing my kid would give me more man food rather than veggies (damn them for trying to keep me alive longer), Watching Youtube videos of “Who’s line” and stumbling the net (stumble is awesome). The one thing that caught me by surprise when searching Sarah Palin parody’s of all things was a commercial for OLPC aka one laptop per child. It was John Lennon many years after his death speaking to me… and telling me about this world changing idea. This lead me to Nicholas Negroponte and three hours of reading/watching video of the man and this “global hand up”;he really does think big.

The idea is… well let me let them tell you what it is

“OLPC is not, at heart, a technology program, nor is the XO a product in any conventional sense of the word. OLPC is a non-profit organization providing a means to an end—an end that sees children in even the most remote regions of the globe being given the opportunity to tap into their own potential, to be exposed to a whole world of ideas, and to contribute to a more productive and saner world community.”

I was and still am fascinated by this. I had an idea long ago when I was first turned on by computers (remember 8088’s, 286 and then the delicious 386 DX50’s?)… I got my first Pentium years after y’all did because I could not afford one. I made sure to talk to my family about the new technology to the point I think I made my brother hate me all over again (sorry for choking you for fun as a kid Jimmy), if we had laptops then maybe I would have known better. Fast Forward to the mid to late 90’s. I knew the kids (the ones I knew) did not have a PC or means to get one anytime soon.

The one thing I wanted to do was collect everyone’s old unwanted 286/386’s to give to the poor kids that would not have the opportunity to have one. I cluttered my home with carcassas and still have a few of them in the storage room. But, I thought small… I thought about my neighborhood and community. I never got the opportunity other than talking. I told a few of my familiy and friends about my plan, it all seemed to be a crazy idea, “You are so crazy Keeme” was my answer… I was, it was… I was thinking too small.

This OLPC project is wonderful and I want to be part of it in some way… even if just to tell one person who did not know about it, about it. I could go into details about the cost (bout 150 bucks) or features (wireless, rugged, manual power charging for developing nations where there is no electricity, open source and more) but the video below will do better than I could. I would like to see this reach the small community each one of us knows about… that would be a great thing for our country. Please find out more and lets all do what we can to promote this great cause. Maybe the planet has a chance to survive after all.

Keeme has spoken.

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I read that 2 out of 3 readers think that 4 out of 5 writers use 8 out of 10 sources to fact check 50% of what a 1/4 of them write, some of the time, well like 32% of the time.

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LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

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Here is a graphic to keep you guys in the loop

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These are the things that happen on a Saturday at the Abbotts home… He was all set to do a Keemecast with me when we … well, you have to listen for yourselves. I shoulda said yes when he asked about a headset.

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I have been in and out of conciousness all week. Today I had some realistic nightmares (not the usual ones… spiders playing poker and snakes in suits walking cats). These were about events happening now and in close proximity to the Keeme… aka the living room and such. I think I am fighting an infection due to the signs of infection and all. I have not seen my doc in like eight months so maybe a call is in order… if only I can get that girraff off the phone… WAIT! YES! They are back

Meltdown averted… still maybe a call would not hurt.

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